Risk to your sensitive information... from a photocopier

masonic

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n

Apparently, used photocopiers are being resold filled with tens of thousands of images of scanned documents stored on their internal hard drives. I wonder what the bank branches do with the photocopiers that they use to copy our passports, driving licences and other ID documents when we open new accounts. :eek:

jonesMUFCforever

Like all other computer related stuff taken to the knackers yard to be destroyed.

mclaren32

masonic wrote: »

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n

Apparently, used photocopiers are being resold filled with tens of thousands of images of scanned documents stored on their internal hard drives. I wonder what the bank branches do with the photocopiers that they use to copy our passports, driving licences and other ID documents when we open new accounts. :eek:

I have never seen a photocopier as advanced as that in any of the branches I have worked in or visited.

masonic

mclaren32 wrote: »

I have never seen a photocopier as advanced as that in any of the branches I have worked in or visited.

Apparently the photocopying industry has been putting hard drives in their copiers since the late nineties. Any photocopier that can do fancy things like resize, collate or duplex is going to have to store the images somewhere - either in RAM or on a hard disk drive. What's surprising is that when a hard drive is used, the data is being stored more or less permanently.

Perhaps your comment was meant to indicate that the banks you've had experience of were a bit behind the times and used old-school xerography machines. I wouldn't want to rely on that being the case elsewhere. Some of the bank branches I've been into over the past few years have been quite modern.

stclair

I think Lloyds TSB use such photocopiers/scanners.